About a month ago, I was in a peer group meeting with some of my designer friends, and one of them surprised me by saying:

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"Carla . . . I think I saw your name in the comments section of the new Elle Decor."

At first, I didn't totally believe her. But the more I thought about it the more I began to believe it might be possible.

I don't know of another designer out there with my name, so it couldn't have been a different "Carla Aston." And I had been leaving a lot of comments on a lot of design blogs, so maybe they reprinted one of those.

Until I got my hands on a copy of the latest issue, all I could do was spin my wheels over how this could be possible.

Finally, once I got home that day, I checked the mail to see if the new issue had arrived, and it had. I flipped straight to the mailbag section and, sure enough, there it was: a Tweet I had posted that shared my article about Athena Calderone's beautiful home.

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